Who is the most genuine person in the field of UFOs

I am really not up-to-date with many authors anymore, i read most of them a while back.
But Nick Pope was amongst those i always had a "good feeling" about. Not sure about Friedman tho, but if i had to list two it would be those two.

Every UFO researcher i have seen speak had an agenda. Most had a book or two to sell. Its impossible to be genuine about the UFO phenomenon, because
nobody truly knows for sure what we are dealing with.

Stanton seems to have got the most votes for being the most genuine. But what does he actually known. Most of what he believes has been said to him.
His never had an experience so why should i listen to him.

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I have followed the entire "Alien" thread for over 30 yrs and have read some incredible things. And some incredulous things. There is so much
disinformation it is impossible to sort through what is "truth" and what is "false" without a healthy sense of cynicism for EVERYTHING you read. I
have come to believe NOTHING anyone says. Just watch it all go by and wait. Most of what has been predicted have NEVER come true. It has all been
absolute HOT AIR. So if I was a gambling man, I would not be placing too much gratis on what most of these people say or do about "aliens". However
it is fun to read while keeping a healthy sense of reality..

Originally posted by CallYourBluff
Stanton Friedman is by far the best and most meticulous UFO researcher.

NO

Just, um, NO.

He's a 'ufologist' in the respect that he quit nuclear physics because he could get paid more, with more time off, by talking to people about UFOs and
doing lectures.
He 'researches' to lecture so he can get paid, and he's not really come up with anything new to his carnival routine in years.
He started out all right, but, now he's just on cruise control, milking the Ufology circus as extended retirement for whatever he can get out of it
without going too far into losing what credibility he's built up.

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Do you have proof that Friedman left his cushy nuclear physicist job to become a ufologist? To be mocked by every one of his peers and to throw away
everything that he built his life to until, as he explains it, he discovered the secret that could change the world. What if he changed career courses
because he discovered something so amazing that he felt compelled to devote his life to it?

Also why does it have to be a carnival? Have you ever heard this man speak? He isn't milking anything, he offers lucid and sound knowledge on every
aspect of the field in every interview I've ever heard.
My vote is for Friedman in first and Good, Dolan coming up second and third.

id love to think that john leer is completely legit with his claims. who knows really. you cant blame john leer if he gets his facts from some source
that is unreliable. he doesnt know. stanton friedman seems to be really professional in his research, but one thing i dont like about him is the fact
that he doesnt believe bob lazar. who should we believe, stanton friedman, or boyd bushman, who has been a leading lockheed scientist for years and
says that bob lazar is telling the truth. its really difficult to know who to believe.

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Do you have proof that Friedman left his cushy nuclear physicist job to become a ufologist? To be mocked by every one of his peers and to throw away
everything that he built his life to until, as he explains it, he discovered the secret that could change the world. What if he changed career courses
because he discovered something so amazing that he felt compelled to devote his life to it?

Also why does it have to be a carnival? Have you ever heard this man speak? He isn't milking anything, he offers lucid and sound knowledge on every
aspect of the field in every interview I've ever heard.
My vote is for Friedman in first and Good, Dolan coming up second and third.

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He still bills himself as a nuclear scientist when he's been a ufologist about twice as long as he ever worked in real science.
I sold my old car. Does that make me a professional automotive salesperson?
A friend of mine with a Cesna let me work the controls of the aircraft for a few minutes after we were up in the air. Does that make me a
professional pilot now?
When I was a teen, I did some babysitting. Does that make me a child care professional?

Yes, I've watched a number of videos on Friedman, and over the years he's developed into another circus performer clown, going out of his way to
ridicule NASA, SETI, as well as personalities he disagrees with, putting his OPINION forward as a point of fact as opposed to sticking to just the
evidence.

Once upon a time, Friedman may have been a worthy contributor in the early days, but, now, it's just lectures for pay, lots of opinion, and "buy my
book".

Until he pulls himself out of cruise control and gets back to investigating as opposed to simply giving opinion, then, in my book at least, he's a
wash out.

If you should ask for specific areas of UFO expertise or even suggest a UFO research Hall of Fame, may I nominate (posthumously) a major
contributor to UFO research?

If I may, I'd like to nominate the late Constance Clear for her contributions to alien abduction research.

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Originally posted at the NUFOC.Net websiteAbduction therapist & author of Reaching for Reality. ... ...Constance began to study the UFO phenomena, which led to her working with
abductees ... Her credentials include: L.M.S.W.-A.C.P., L.M.F.T., A.C.S.W., and B.C.D.

originally posted by Desdemone of the Monstrous.com website"Clear made a name for herself in the realm of alien abductions and UFO phenomena when she took the narratives of seven people who claimed to be
abductees and published her first book, "Reaching for Reality: Seven Incredible True Stories of Alien Abduction."

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